Words of Wisdom

Today’s first quotation is from Holly Cheever, a veterinarian whose
excellent lectures we enjoy so much.

“We should give all animals the benefit of the doubt that they are
fully sentient, even if our senses are too dull to appreciate fully
their intelligence.”
– Holly Cheever, DVM

“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an
act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man
suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,
that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel.”
– Leo Tolstoy

"Joyful Curmudgeon"
An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the
same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the
world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true
peace and compassion.